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Indo-Pac. j. phenomenol. (Online) vol.10 no.2 Grahamstown Out. 2010

http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/ipjp.2010.10.2.5.1086

doi: 10.2989/ipjp.2010.10.2.5.1086

Phenomenology of joint attention

Timothy Martell

ABSTRACT

It is one thing for two or more persons to perceive the same object, and it is quite another for two or more persons to perceive the same object together. The latter phenomenon is called joint attention and has recently garnered considerable interest from psychologists. However, contemporary psychological research has not succeeded in clarifying how persons can share perception of an object. Joint attention thus stands in need of phenomenological clarification. Surprisingly, this has yet to be offered. Phenomenologists have provided thoroughgoing analyses of perceptual experience, but have overlooked the perceptual experiences of co-perceivers; and, while a number of well-known phenomenologists have offered accounts of how one encounters other persons, they have neglected the phenomenon of perceptually attending to an object with other persons. This paper addresses a shortcoming of both contemporary psychological research and the phenomenological tradition by providing a phenomenological analysis of joint attention.

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